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Crematorium

Station 11

Also located in the
rear area is the execution site used to shot Soviet prisoners of war and
Gestapo prisoners.

The crematoria served
to dispose corpses from the concentration camp; mostly the ovens were in
operation day and night. At the end of 1944 their capacity was no longer enough
to cremate the scores of dead from the camp. Upon liberating the camp at the
end of April 1945, American soldiers came across countless corpses piled up in
the crematorium. The photographs of these scenes went around the world and showed
the scale and mercilessness of Nazi persecution and extermination.

As early as summer
1945 the first exhibition on the crimes of the SS was shown in barrack X; its
main concern was to document these crimes given the trials against the camp’s
SS scheduled for November that year. This exhibition was closed by the Bavarian
government in 1953. Another exhibition, put together by the Comité
International de Dachau, was open between 1960 and 1964.

Today the area is the
main place of remembrance and cemetery in the Dachau Concentration Camp
Memorial Site. In the Memorial Site archive 32,000 deaths are documented; many
thousands died however who were not officially registered:

Unknown is the large number of the
Jewish prisoners killed who were not registered, particularly in the subcamps,
with the same applying to Russians and Poles.

Unknown is the number of victims
executed by the Gestapo.

Unknown is the number of Soviet
prisoners of war executed in the years 1941 and 1942.

Unknown is the number who died on
the evacuation marches or those who died shortly after liberation as a
consequence of their imprisonment.